Approaches to meaning
Subtitle: composition, values, and interpretation
By: edited by Daniel Gutzmann, Jan Kopping, Cecile Meier
Contributors: Köpping, Jan, editor
Series: Current research in the semantics/Pragmatics interface -- Volume 32
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9789004279360; 9789004279377
Subjects: Semantics; Compositionality (Linguistics); Comparative and general Grammar; Conditionals
Description: The basic claims of traditional truth-conditional semantics are that the semantic interpretation of a sentence is connected to the truth of that sentence in a situation, and that the meaning of the sentence is derived compositionally from the semantic values meaning of its constituents and the rules that combine them. Both claims have been subject to an intense debate in linguistics and philosophy of language. The original research papers collected in this volume test the boundaries of this classic view from a linguistic and a philosophical point of view by investigating the foundational notions of composition, values and interpretation and their relation to the interfaces to other disciplines. They take the classical theories one step further and closer to a realistic semantic theory that covers the speaker's intentions, the knowledge of discourse participants, meaning of fiction and literature, as well as vague and paradoxical utterances.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.